Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a rush-job from It , complete with copy stripped on to the pages with uncorrected passages hastily crossed out — but it was immediate . |
| 2 | The police soon banned these as offensive weapons , especially when steel spikes were welded on to the toecaps , and more subtle weapons had to be found . |
| 3 | Three Chester students who set up their own company — called ‘ No Frills ’ — making everything from Jewellery to boxer shorts , took the BNFL award which is given annually to the operators of the best company . |
| 4 | This information will be given only to the parents of the individual child . |
| 5 | President Berisha , however , has given in to the nationalists over the question of property restitution . |
| 6 | Resident outside the airfield 's motel for nearly 30 years , it was beginning to look very much the worse for wear and , as other Ouragons have given in to the ravages of time , attract the nearest of museums . |
| 7 | ‘ Even though PDAG is not to be abolished until next April , it seems members have already given in to the Tories . |
| 8 | The Scottish economy has responded vigorously to the policies we have introduced to liberate enterprise , and many more people are now saving , investing and owning their homes . |
| 9 | Even foreign tourists who had not yet caught on to the realities of life in Romania and perhaps were over-insistent in demanding from a minor bureaucrat of the tourist office why some essential and prepaid feature of their holiday had failed to materialize would be confronted by a shrug of the shoulders and the muttered words , ‘ Epocha Ceauşescu , as the only explanation . |
| 10 | The lid had collapsed on to the remains , the sides had fallen outwards , but the two end pieces remained upright . |
| 11 | In other words , when the controls simulated other personalities , their brains still responded identically to the stimuli . |
| 12 | Fido has been booked in to the kennels down the road and Fluffy has Mrs Jones coming in to feed her — but what about the fish ? |
| 13 | The Economic League , formed in the winter of 1919 to 1920 in order to lead a counter-attack by British capitalism against the rise of a mass labour movement , also added greatly to the difficulties of the General Council . |
| 14 | These points are being forgotten at the very time that they have become most pressing — for the transition from communism in Russia and Eastern Europe has added greatly to the demands that are being placed on western aid budgets . |
| 15 | They asked me a few questions and they said , ‘ You 'd better come along to the police station . ’ |
| 16 | Then , suddenly , the arms are dropped down to the sides of the body again . |
| 17 | Young and fit and keyed in to the processes of organisational power . |
| 18 | TWO student chefs from Darlington College have won through to the finals of a national catering competition . |
| 19 | With partner Jill Clark , she 's won through to the quarter-finals of the Japanese Open after beating the world 's number two pair from Indonesia . |
| 20 | Any tasks not completed by the due date on the ‘ to do list ’ can be automatically carried over to the reminders list , a facility I found to be very useful . |
| 21 | Any tasks not completed by the due date on the ‘ to do list ’ can be automatically carried over to the reminders list , a facility I found to be very useful . |
| 22 | The red theme has been carried through to the goblets that the family use every Christmas , the napkins and the candlesticks . |
| 23 | If the assault proved successful , Egypt would no longer be vulnerable to attack ( the Turks had already sent a force to attempt to seize the Suez Canal ) and Turkey 's traditional enemies in the Balkans might be won over to the Allies . |
| 24 | In fact , if I had n't rung through to the police station we 'd have had a squad car on our doorstep by now . ’ |
| 25 | The sympathetic nerves achieve their effects by releasing the hormone noradrenaline from the nerve-tips , which are located close to the organs that they influence . |
| 26 | The greatest ocean depths are achieved in oceanic trenches which are to be found both along some continental margins , notably western South America ( Fig. 2.6 ) , and in association with island arcs which are usually located close to the edges of continents . |
| 27 | As she was drugged up to the eyeballs on arrival , she had n't yet gone into shock but they were expecting it and , if she survived , then miracles could be performed . |
| 28 | In the ward you are lying there in pain , drugged up to the eyeballs . |
| 29 | Places differ not simply because their physical environments differ but also because , for a variety of reasons , people have responded differently to the opportunities and constraints that those environments offer . |
| 30 | The Science and Engineering Research Council ( SERC ) also responded positively to the policies but was disappointed that opportunities had been missed . |